To do any kind of history of classroom film, you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields, im going to be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done, work thats been done by other historians of science. Film studies people. Communications studies scholars, even folk lorists. For reasons that should now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinary. In particular were going to return to this question, right. What are the relations between art, science and entertainment and culture, in cinema . How do they reinforce one another in these particular contexts . Were going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums. And across science. So its all going to be kind of blending together. And also Science Education. Obviously in Science Education what students are taught depends on what the stateoftheart knowledge is for that period. We have to consider what is the scientific and technical knowledge. To understand
[inaudible conversation] good evening everybody. Please find your seats. Thanks for joining us from this incredibly beautiful warm evening. My name is mark, executive editor at the creston these are our offices. We are happy to be tonight, this is above all a celebration of Louis Uchitelle and his new book making it why manufacturing still matters. Ive had the pleasure of working with lou over a number of years as his editor and striking up a great collaboration so i like to congratulate you on the publication, its been an exceptional response early on in this party is meant to anchor the launch of making it why manufacturing still matters. [applause] i want to thank you, im not sure this book would have happened. Youre a good editor. Thank you. So lou as many of you know has a distinguished pedigree and career in writing about america and writing about economics. For 25 years he reported on labor and economics for the New York Times. Before that he was a Foreign Correspondent for the
Thursday, where you stand on the republican bill thats out. I think its a big step in the right direction. Is not perfect and i think as republicans , my message is you cant let perfect be the enemy of good here. Its defining, its declawing obamacare strikes to the heart of obamacare with respect to doing away withthe mandate. Repealing the taxes, gutting the regulations that again is at the heart of government controlled healthcare as i described and then begins the process of reforming with republican reforms that are based in market. Creating a situation where you have insurance competing for us as patients or consumers which i think if you have that dynamic in a robust way, you will have prices go down and you will have better services. And you will empower patients who got tax credits in there, you got expansion of Health Savings accounts, and then you got ways to reform medicaid and give states more flexibility so i think the big step in the right direction, i think there are a c
Committees. Good morning. Guest good morning, pedro. Host this week, health care will be on the republican agenda. Where do you stand on the republican bill currently out . Guest its a big step in the right direction. Its not perfect. I think as republicans my message is we cannot let perfect be the enemy of good here. Singing and decline obamacare. It is doing away with the mandates, repealing the taxes, gutting the regulations that again is at the heart of government controlled health care as i describe it. And it begins the process of reforming with republican reforms that are based in markets. Ting situation in which you have insurers competing for us as patients or consumers, which i think if you have that dynamic and a robust way, you will have prices go down and you will have better services. You will empower patients. We have got tax credits in their, and expansion of Health Savings accounts. You have got ways to reform medicaid and give states more flexibility. I think its a b
Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. At grand valley state university. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figures of the 18thcentury scottish enlightened. This morning